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Barker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $36,000 |
| LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $2,000 |
| LANGFORD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FALNES CEMETERY FUND | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE LOS ANGELES | $1,500 |
| CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE EBELL OF LOS ANGELES | $1,000 |
| DAUGHTERS OF MARY AND JOSEPH | $1,000 |
| JOHN TRACY CENTER | $500 |
| CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS | $500 |
| STUDENTS RUN LA | $500 |
| ALEXANDRIA HOUSE | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +34%- ACAMERICAN CORPORATION OF THE ARTS3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +16%
- EOEBELL OF LOS ANGELES7× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SSSISTER STELLA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k
- NCNATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE CORONET DEBUTANTE BALLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +48%
- AOAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The organization aims to benefit the residents of the united states through the planning, promotion and staging of the xxxiv olympiad and the xviii paralympic games.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ebell of Los Angeles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORPORATION OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds EBELL OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE - LA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds THE SISTER STELLA FOUNDATION FOR ST PAUL THE APOSTLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE CORONET DEBUTANTE BALL ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ACEING AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds GFYC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WEST LOS ANGELES LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA RUGBY CLUB ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barker Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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